Long thread…. Things to make you go hmmm…
So this week I’ve been told:
- without GRF’s, one can’t hit powerful enough shots. You need friction to push into ground so that you can get equivalent forces pushed back into your legs to generate power.
- that I’m a Luddite.
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I’ll be the first to admit, I really don’t like sharing to much insight into what our training is like. But, my boy Aiden has been putting in the work.
I do like building golf swings. We have worked a bunch lately on his golf swing. Look back a few posts to see his swing.
As you have seen, I’ve made tons of posts about keys to “Fleetwood Pattern”. Now you can listen to what he says about his swing. Certainly would be interesting to read your thoughts! Remember, what one feels and what one really does is normally very different.
Payne Stewart showing a great drill to stop coming over the top. Payne is hitting a 3-iron and Charlie Rymer is giving him grief about not taking a divot. Some fun while giving a great drill.
I tend do believe this would be very beneficial for lots of amateur golfers!
So many great things in
@AdamScott
golf swing.
Absolutely love this camera angle as we can learn so much.
Here are a few key pieces:
- backswing side bent left, extended his spine, turned shoulders in a circle
- Legs extending
- BIG ONE! Arms not pulling apart from one
Continuation of some keys that Fleetwood has used to develop his golf swing. To me, this is the biggest reason behind why he has built such a great swing.
The “WINDMILL” swing is a simple. To perform it one needs to do a few things.
1- I love the hit hard stop fast concept.
Observation is simple and illustrates what great players do. I believe vast majority amateur golfers need to understand this key point and implement it into their golf swings. Why? Simple, I see to many amateurs moving BOC more outward then download which leads to more slices
Remember, FEEL isn’t REAL! What one says they do and what they do are different. Thats why one needs a camera to see if feel is created the desired improvement to movement.
This is a perfect example. His concept of right ear to ground is what’s seen during real swing.
IMO,
This is so good! So many gold nuggets illustrated and explained by
@LukeDonald
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A simply awesome move from
@tigerwoods
This action aids in increasing ground reaction forces to create more power in golf swing.
Highlights in video:
- Knees changing flex - Side bending left
- Shoulder turning in circle
- All power accumulators loaded at P4
- Body lowering
Little insight into shifting planes to shallow it out some. This is truly a great swing and simply beautiful action.
Like I’ve said numerous times, I believe golfers truly don’t understand the task when it comes to upgrading their swing. Lots of it starts with ambiguous terms
Sometimes golfers need to go to the other side of the spectrum to find the middle.
Here is one of my favorite shallowing/sequencing and pivot drills to carry power package / RWFW into impact! Hope you guys enjoy it.
This is also a great drill for those golfers who get the
Want a little compression juice? Well, here you go!
Watch the width of club head and hand path arc in backswing.
Then pay attention to what happens to shaft and hand path in downswing.
This is a big move to get hands forward at impact.
Watch the width in follow through.
To pull or not to pull? The answer is easy if you know what and how the pull works.
First watch, listen and learn to all the clips in video. I could have posted more videos like this but this should be enough to get you thinking.
Why the pull? Simple if you ask me. How else
A great movement prep drill to improve arm sequence and impact.
Drill really helps golfers understand the movements needed to keep clubhead from ripping inside early in takeaway sequence. This leads to a series of bad compensations one downswing. Learning this sequence helps
Nobody tells you this to start your downswing! This small key helps golfers unlock their inner athlete and ultimately get through the golf ball better.
This is also something you already do if you were to throw a frisbee or ball. I inserted a simple drill I did with
Some have brought up topics from my recent Fleetwood posts. So I thought I would address them here.
Two parts to this video. 1st illustrates that his tailbone moves towards the target in backswing. 2nd highlights the left femur action.
Slide baby slide! Average tour payers
I find it very fascinating that I’ve seen numerous parody videos from
both golfers and teachers mocking training aids. Here are some of my thoughts to training aids.
Vast majority of golfers don’t improve because of how and what they do in practice. It is not because they
Beautifully illustrated sequence from Fleetwood!
Fun one for sure. In YOUR WORDS, how would you explain the arrows? I would love to know so please comment below ⬇️. Remember, words create action and if you want this action, your words matter. 😉
Find this drill to be extremely beneficial for a high number is swing issues. Especially when you see all the variations available!
So the ultimate questions becomes, what do you think it can help fix or more importantly, help with particular feels?
About as pure as pure can be!
@tigerwoods
displaying all key fundamental concepts to executing basic task of playing golf. Ultimate question, what are they? Make sure to answer below!👇
Also, I’ve made numerous posts discussing and illustrating Fleetwood and foot action not
Don’t really understand why some say slide is bad when it can be seen and it has been measured!
Wonder if golfers realize that with a driver, tour pelvis average at top of swing is .1”A - 2.1” T. At impact, they are 3.4”T - 6.4”T. Then at finish, they are 5.5”T - 9.7”T.
I
Let’s keep it going…. Truly AWESOME!!!! Ryan Palmer impact interval. This fits nicely with the last few of my posts about improving COMPRESSION with hub location, lead knee and wrist angles.
You can see weight forward, handle forward of ball line, hands in line with lead leg,
Truth bomb for sure!!
@officialtommyfleetwood
transition. Awesome move to emulate.
I’m going to highlight this action from a few tour players and back it up with GEARS data. Really don’t need the data but for some it seems like it is the only way to help people understand
Absolutely love this practice station from Connie.
What I like about this is the layers of sophistication to improve/groove swing. The precision needed is truly amazing. I certainly wouldn’t recommend starting off with this many layers. Start small as many players don’t have
The perfected recipe for push draws. Hard to find anyone better!
Keys:
- ball back of center
- shaft inline with lead arm
- shaft pointing to center
- weight forward
- face slightly closed to inside of shaft
- arms straight
Oh my, that SOUND of FLUSH city!!!
@tigerwoods
displaying some crazy good lower hub movements and
IMPULSE DYNAMICS. Very much like the Fleetwood post from other day.
Pay special attention to:
- subtlety of pelvic motion from P1 to P2
- the backing in of pelvis as he approaches
Made a post recently about the technique to help improve the skill of low point control. This is one of my favorite drills to improve the skill of low point.
This penny drill really isolates ones ability to control the leading edge. Learn to gain control of this and you will
Let’s continue a bit with more Fleetwood concepts.
Great graphics for sure. Such a simple concept for people to replicate.
I often use this concept in conjunction with monitoring the head triangle to improve arm structure.
A measured difference between elite ball strikers
Playing Augusta while watching The Masters takes the experience to a different level. Would have made the cut on the number. :) Shot 2 over today. Sunday pins for the final round tomorrow.
This is one way to create the Tour Average hand path. These simple action words and concept is something anyone can execute.
Back, in and up for backswing. Down, out and forward for downswing. Pretty simple instruction for hand path.
I’ve also posted a bunch of awesome
Simply a great illustration and very nice details explanation from Mikah on what is needed to complete a great turn in backswing. He and
@sierackigolf
collaborated on this one.
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The EASIEST way to achieve a 90° “SHOULDER TURN” 🔄
It’s easy to assume that the 90° “shoulder
Play golf today with a close friend and we were paired with two others golfers. Here is what I saw today:
1- 2 of the 3 golfers need to do learn how to close the club face someplace else other than at set-up.
Admit it, who doesn’t want some “DUMPY FLOW”?
Sneak peak into “Dumpy Flow” sequence with snap release. I really do love training movement like this. For lots it helps with learning the task and makes it easier to transfer into golf swing
Want to REALLY compress it? You should verify the trajectory of your lead shoulder in both the backswing and the downswing!!!
Remember, the shoulders should turn around the tilted spine. That is one tip for ya.
We also have to do a few other things but that will be for
Interesting quote for sure. What do you think? Do you hit more balls then making actual rehearsal swings?
I tell my players to make 1-2 rehearsals minimum to every shot and use their camera/practice station to verify feels to concept. Especially when we are working on
Let’s continue with the tailbone and femur visuals.
Love this view and visual of how tailbone works! If you want to be good, watch and copy
@tigerwoods
action. Also, I’ll be talking rather extensively about lead femur action in coming posts. You can still see what I’m
Learning to “SLING IT” is a great way to increase speed and swing from inside. The is learning to disassociate!
This certainly isn’t easy but once learned, it is extremely helpful to golfers who are slow and can’t hit it from the inside.
This is something I do often when I
Great stuff today from Alice. Cleaned up excessive sway in backswing. Then increased compression by reducing spin loft at impact.
Backswing:
- model was Lydia Ko. Feels were to have trail hip move towards lead foot. Create look of ball moving towards the right in late
The perfect release produces major advantages in creating compression! The higher the handicap, the further away they are from this type of release pattern. This is how I like to train players on the bottom swivel.
Here is a snippet that I did for some during online lesson.
Ah, yes! Grip is a variable! Many different grip styles used by players who are in the hall of fame. The grip does have some key variables though. This video goes over two of them.
I also love using this hammer analogy. Anyone who has ever used a hammer effectively knows the
Struggling with your takeaway going to far inside? Here is a great concept and picture to help reduce the amount of forearm roll in takeaway.
I used this with one of my online lessons yesterday. I’ve also used it in the past with players here at the academy. It really does
I have said it before, I see more similarities versus differences in elite level ball strikers. Vast majority of time, mid to high handicap golfers don’t display these 5 keys at P6.
Here are 6 different golfers from my
@GearsSports
golf system. You can see some slight
Vast majority of time, I see golfer start thrusting their pelvis towards golf ball in backswing. It then typically keeps going towards the ball in downing. Many call this move early extension.
To combat early extension, I generally help people understand how the lower body
Vast majority of time, I see golfer start thrusting their pelvis towards golf ball in backswing. It then typically keeps going towards the ball in downing. Many call this move early extension.
To combat early extension, I generally help people understand how the lower body
The primary objective of the backswing is keeping the shoulder center stable, resulting in the shoulders turning in a circle on a tilted angle (NOT level to the ground). This is the master key of the
@stackandtilt
backswing. Specifically, we perform this by fully EXTENDING the
Some say skill trumps technique. I would say that’s kinda crazy! I would say that your technique sets the ceiling for the skill!
Everyone knows that
@tigerwoods
ball striking ability was unmatched. He clearly displays all the right pieces needed in gaining control over the
Like I said other day, here are some keys and drills to the “FLEETWOOD PATTERN”
Key to this is:
- little more vertical at P3
- knees square while arm in at P5
- hips open about 20-30 degrees and rib cage pretty square at P6
- trail wrist bent back, leading edge slightly down
Ok, I’ve highlighted keys/pieces to the pivot. Now onto wrist angles.
Some extra little details to wrist angles.
• right wrist flying wedge
• yellow arrow trigger finger pp
#3
• green arrow pp
#1
The position of your RH grip does affect whether you are able extend the
Finishing off the day of testing ideas and concepts. Took 7 swings to break 100mph with 7 iron. Don’t even know what the inside of gym looks like anymore. Have not done speed training in years. I’m now 49. What did I do?
Lots of ask how I build up my right handed swing. This is basically what I did and the MEGSA perfect practice equipment pieces that I used. This is what I needed and everyone will need something different to build a repeatable golf swing with the least amount of compensations to
First you have to get into a perfect set-up. Then here is your first move! Stay on the shaft at beginning of takeaway!
The correct takeaway sequence helps reduce amount of compensations to rest of swing. For many, this becomes a game changer. For others, not so much as they
Ask and you shall receive. Posted a video a few days ago about wide to narrow for iron swing. Did mix it up slightly though. Here is driver wide to narrow raw frame video. Such a great view and perspective!
I’ve included avatar in face on view for a nicer reference. Face on
This is a big move if you really want to give yourself the best chance to INCREASE the QUALITY of STRIKE and COMPRESSION.
If you do, your lead shoulder better do this!! Who wants a simple drill to start this process? Comment “I DO” below!
Unlocking the secrets to the big high push draw:
Keys:
- turn feet out to encourage more pelvis depth and turn. This helps open up the inside of golf ball for inside out path.
- handle up and forward. Face open to target but leading edge closed to the shaft.
- arms swing down
Ask and you shall receive! Here is the instant over the top fix drill!
1st: we clearly define what over the top is and if it is something you should be worried about.
2nd: the details to what would be acceptable and what wouldn’t be an acceptable!
3rd: the ultimate
One of the downswing drills I’ll use to help players understand how to move. Looks easy but you have to have touch with hands if you want to throw the ball. Bonus: I illustrate the moves of Tiger and Adam Scott. Let me know how this works for ya.
The best drill ever to learn to hit push draws!
She literally had no idea where this was going. She got it after a little bit. You can see her reactions after her first shot!
@emilechile
going through some serious push draw practice with
@manavian
and I.
It truly is amazing
Simply awesome footwork on display! Not many fully understand the importance of this. These two greats displaying banking and braking versus twisting to open up.
More players do this too. Do you know who they are?
Do you want a drill to help you with this?
Consistency for most would include ensuring that hand path follows the arc around a tilted axis of spine. How much one needs can simply be define by measuring and understanding the anatomy as it effects the ability to properly trace the arc.
Just as the hands move in during the
This mornings post was about the club shifting planes. I illustrated how it is done with GEARS illustration.
Here we are performing a drill to have club moving planes.
Ball 1- move up to plane o’matic. From P4 is dumps power accumulator 4 & 1 while loading 5 more and keeping
To gets hips forward, you need slide. Without slide, no hips forward.
Models create pathways. Video and pictures help monitor progression. Our jobs as golfers is to adjust feels and concepts to arrive at destination. If you dwell to much on weird, you won’t go anywhere and just
So other day we showed you one of the many drills/concepts Aiden and I do. Here is his golf swing.
I would say he is fortunate. He comes to work with me a lot during the week. I have learned that he pays a bit of attention while with me.
Some things about him for those who
How do you keep your head more centered? Simple to some extent. Certainly easier once you know what controls the movement.
We need to understand the 3 dimensional movements first. We need to blend the extending, titling and turning rates.
In this video I explain and
The ultimate early extension fix explained in great detail that you very well have never seen before.
The ultimate details to clear the air on early extension. This is a clip from our twitter live mindmeld the other day.
We discuss:
- creating the most amount of freedom to
What the? Well, I do know the purpose of the illustration. I also feel like vast majority would benefit from the concept. Question is, what is the concept and what does it do? So basically, why is it important?
Let’s continue with developing a better understanding of checkpoints at P6! Here are some checkpoints from the caddy view. Just as
@fisherbryan_golf
mentioned yesterday, the internet and social media is full of bad ideas.
I’m using 5 of the same 6 golfers from yesterday’s
When you know, you know. The ultimate segment training concept to help learn the proper release of 4 & 1.
The perfect drill for golfers who struggle with getting a narrow arc downswing by p6. Their release sequence pins the 4th accumulator across their chest.
I can hit the
A staple drill of mine, HIT HARD, STOP FAST! Always start like we did here, slow. Once you are able to achieve this, start cranking up the speed. Just don’t let the follow through get any higher than this. I also like doing this with 9 iron to warm up. Then move to 7 iron for
Everyone Tilts! There are many of these images where people discuss the small distal joint minutia, however when classifying what ALL golfers do, we would say that ALL golfers TILT for the same reason. They may do varying amounts, but they all TILT in the opposite direction of
IMO no golfer purposely goes out and reacting the things they learned from their lesson incorrectly. The hardest thing about golf is differentiating feel versus real. This is why I love practice stations and use of video based feedback. But first, one has to understand the task.
YES,
@bubbawatson
is slightly different but not all that different from the essentials performed by test of tour players. His dynamics are world class. Especially his impact alignments!!!!!!
Absolutely positively insane. So called fitted irons. 7 iron is 94.02 mph with 19.93 mph hand speed. They got fitted into true temper elevate tour REGULAR FLEX.
Some perspective to deflection and droop specs.
Deflection - 10mm
Droop - 20mm
Their club measured out to have
Why I love this training concept! Removing segments helps golfers create greater awareness to their movements. The exaggeration of lowering center of mass and keeping legs flexed helps players focus on arms.
Keys to set-up:
- I like seeing extension built into lead wrist
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Great video here from
@mikahwilsongolf
Here's a simple cue, a couple of checkpoints, and great details from
@andy_plummer
@stackandtilt
to help with performing the basic movements of the spine during the backswing and understanding why they're so important to playing your best
Humbled and honored to be recognized again as one of the top teachers in the state of Texas by Golf Digest! Those who know me know that this isn’t about me, it is fueled by the incredible students and golf coaches who have trusted me with their golf journey.
Thank you
Getting “AROUND THE CORNER” is important concept to understand. Let’s make sure we understand what it really means and which corner do you have to get around. Make sure to swipe left to watch all the videos.
Video 1: the definition of the corners provided. Then start of faults
The definitive guide to WRIST ANGLE RELATIONSHIPS!
VIDEO 1- the anatomical terms that helps provide clarity to the task. The average angle at set-up is provided. Examples provided to the variations that many Wolfe ball strikers use.
Video 2- the preferences to arm structure
5- play the forward tees! Specifically the red tees till you can develop enough skills to shot even par.
For the life of me, I have no idea why golfers are obsessed with shooting over 100 from back tees. Especially if your good drive goes 175. Please stop the madness. We would
Nice visual of how both arms work. These contributions help control arm structure. You can see how the trail arm thrusting works in bottom half of downswing.
I’ll show my GEARS 3D data on my arms later today so you can see the similarities. I’ve been using these straps for over
I always get asked if the positions are good within a golf swing. Here is how to verify if the relationships are good and what section of the swing is off. Our goal in an effective golf swing is to reduce the amount of compensations. Maintaining the relationships throughout the
It really doesn’t take much to build a very effective home full swing training bay. Even though I have a
@foresightsports
GC Quad with me, I hardly ever use it at home. I prefer to work on my swing without. I like not worrying about where the ball is going and focus more on
4- stop using your most lofted club to hit shots around the green. Get the ball on the green quick and learn to control the roll out. Saw enough chili dips to last me a lifetime.
FORM sets the ceiling to the FUNCTION of a swing. A swings function is to control then essential fundamentals.
A golfers mindset and dedication to the to the process is everything. Pretty easy to say you want it. Another thing to show it.
Learning really isn’t all that hard
2- simple ball flight rules. Face starts it, the path bends it. Stop with the outside in or inside out nonsense. Most golfers have no clue whether or not they are actually inside out or outside in while playing golf.
I can say this, I never talk to myself with those words. It
Yes, I’m truly a lefty! Played professionally as a lefty. Did commit to really work hard in building my right handed swing. This is close to being the final product.
I did struggle with takeaway. That is the other drill and concept I posted a few days back.
I then worked on
Little float load to help with some sequencing feels. Then swinggyde to match up left arm flying wedge. That sound! Maddox is really starting to understand our concepts.
Love these close up views of IMPACT INTERVAL. So much one can learn. What do you see happening? Does it differ then what you thought?
Pretty interesting footwork too.
Sorry a bit of a long video but needed as it is an educational video on what GEARS fitting is and how important measuring a shaft is. Certainly worth a few minutes of your time if you are looking to get fitted.
#measureeverything
#clubfitting
I had my good friend
@Manavian
in
Weird and humorous that those who talk about getting shafts fit to their golf clubs NEVER deal with those who can actually measure the shafts participation to impact and ball flight.
A shaft FIT requires measuring the shaft. If one isn’t measuring the shaft, it isn’t a shaft
7- stop with the ridiculous clichés! I don’t ever want to hear that:
- I got quick on that one
- I lifted my head on that one
- I tried to kill that one
- I need to swing slower
None of that is ever going to help you.